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This paper refers on the outcomes of an experimental study developed in an industrial plant in the centre of Italy in which dust emission represents an important annoyance affecting the whole activity and so requiring to be managed in order to guarantee legal compliance but, above all, a safe workplace. This case study consists in the assessment of the efficacy of different reduction measures designed to avoid and, where not possible, to reduce dust emissions from stockpiles. According to a monitoring campaign bas...

This paper refers on the result of an experimental work developed at an Italian limestone quarry. In such a site the pollutant emissions connected with standard activities such as drilling, blasting or crushing materials represent primary dust sources and contribute to determine the PM10 concentration all over the quarry plant and the surrounding area. Moreover many studies underlined the important contribution of secondary sources in the assessment of airborne dust climate. These ones, generally constituted by st...

The visual alteration generated by quarrying sites on the surrounding areas constitutes a crucial step in the assessment of environmental impact such activities determine on the landscape. The case study presented in this paper refers on the application of an improved method to assess such alteration taking into account those parameters affecting the visual intrusion by means of a quantitative approach. In particular the assessment is firstly carried out using the visual impact indicator introduced by the EC decis...

This paper refers on the result of an experimental work developed in a quarrying site aimed to test the reliability of geostatistical approach as an alternative tool in the assessment of spatial variability of professional hazards. The case study is referred to the exposure of workers to airborne dust generated from typical quarrying activities. In such a risk assessment procedure in fact, the most useful alternative method to personal sampling is represented by defining the space-time variability of the physical ...